The 2007 Tour of Germany is held from August 10 thru August 18.
Jens Voigt not only retained his yellow leader's jersey through the Individual Time Trial he won the stage powering over the 33km course in Fuerth to finish with a time of 39.42.4. His winning margin was just under 15 seconds from Laszlo Bodrogi (Crédit Agricole) with Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) only capable of finishing 3rd a further 10 seconds back.
Voigt's enormous effort has extended his lead out to to 1'57" and has assured himself a successful defense of his title. Levi Leipheimer has moved into second spot 13" ahead of David Lopez Garcia (Caisse d'Epargne).
Stage 8 Profile
Notable performances throughout the day, apart from Voigt's awesome effort, came from Jason McCartney (Discovery Channel) finishing in 4th place and Linus Gerdemann (T-Mobile) whose 5th placing helped move him up to 14th place overall and 5th place in the Young Rider Classification.
Of the younger brigade, Robert Gesink (Rabobank) finished his Time Trial in 29th place while Chris Anker Sørensen (Team CSC) finished in 39th. However, it was Maxime Monfort (Cofidis) who moved to 3rd on the Young Rider list with a 14th placing.
The reactions and the news...
Team CSC - not only has Jens Voigt increased his overall lead, but youngster Chris Anker Sørensen was able to maintain his place in the top ten.
T-Mobile - kudos to Jens while applauding Gerdemann and Marco Pinotti's rides.
Rabobank - the white jersey is theirs courtesy of Robert Gesink.
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Stage Results (Top 10)
| 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 7 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 8 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 9 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank |
39.42.4 |
Overall GC (Top 10)
| 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 5 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 6 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 7 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 9 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 10 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner |
27.40.26 |
Points Classification
| 1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 2 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team |
78 pts 78 63 |
Mountains Classification
| 1 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 2 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC |
23 pts 15 12 |
Young Rider
| 1 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 2 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 4 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 5 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team |
27.43.41 0.51 2.07 3.08 3.35 |
Teams
| 1 Team CSC 2 Discovery Channel 3 Caisse D'Epargne |
83.11.40 |
